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[Lucky Rathen]

Um, I generally forget books once I read them since I'm such a dumbass, plus I haven't really read that much good books, mostly just trashy horror, but here's a few that stuck:

1 - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
2 - To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
3 - American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
4 - Fred & Rose (the story of the gloucester house of horrors) - not sure of author
5 - The Lovely Bones (a bit teenage girlie, but good) - Alice Sebold.
6 - IT - Stephen King
7 - Michael Jackson - J. Randy Tarobarelli (a fascinating insight)
8 - Glue - Irvine Welsh
9 - King of the World - David Remnick (about Muhammed Ali)
10 - Mirror - Graham Masterton (which just edges out The Heirloom, The House That Jack Built, Ritual, Plague, and virtually every other Masterton book I've read - he produces some truly gruesome horror that makes you want to curl up in a ball and wish the words out of your head)

[Sue Denim..]

It's funny how some peoples favourites are my most hated books.
To name a couple,
Gormenghast. I hated this book. (I now think of it as Gormenghastly!) Read 'The Quincunx' by Charles Pallister instead.

Don Quixote. I failed to see the humor intended by the author. (It was meant as a comedy after all.) Voltaire's "Candide" is shorter and gets the message across a lot better.

[Addi]

Originally Posted by Sue Denim..

Don Quixote. I failed to see the humor intended by the author. (It was meant as a comedy after all.)

Which version were you reading? As I understand it the older translations are not nearly as good as the one I read, which was a new translation.

I read this one.

[Sue Denim..]

Originally Posted by Addi

Which version were you reading? As I understand it the older translations are not nearly as good as the one I read, which was a new translation.

I read this one.

I read this one. I'm sure there can't be much of a difference.
Amazon.co.uk: Don Quixote (Penguin Classics): Books: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra,John Rutherford